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...Blanc's memoir makes clear, his heart and vocal cords belong to the real Toontown, Warner Bros., in the days when Yosemite Sam and Pepe Le Pew were as popular as Bogart and Boyer. For those who care, Blanc reveals the secrets of the stars: why Bugs Bunny speaks with a Brooklyn accent, why Porky stutters, and why Daffy Duck lisps. Those who do not care, as Blanc concludes, are desthpicable...
President Ernest Boyer of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, at Trinity University, San Antonio: "An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time...
This "New Power Soul" sound can often be a bit taxing on the ears. A multiplicity of sounds--Cat and Boni Boyer's vocals, Eric Leeds and Atlanta Bliss' brass, Levi Seacer Jr's. bass, Miko Weaver and Prince's guitars, and Matt Fink's keyboards--all clamor for the listener's attention...
...role of chief villain in Boyer's book belongs to Sauter, who served two tours as news chief before being forced out of the company in 1986. It was | Sauter, Boyer writes, who coaxed the Evening News away from bland Washington stories and toward an emphasis on heart-tugging TV "moments"; who ruthlessly divided the CBS News staff into "yesterday" people (those identified with the Murrow-Cronkite era) and "today" people (the younger, TV-fluent crowd); who pushed for hiring Phyllis George as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. "Sauter was in charge," writes Boyer, "and it was clear...
...Boyer oversimplifies. Many of the changes at CBS News would have occurred with or without Sauter; nor have all of them been bad. (They have certainly not been unique to CBS.) Boyer is on the shakiest ground in his final chapter, in which he tries to fit the events of the past year -- when CBS News' fortunes have improved -- into his anti-Sauter thesis. His assertion that Rather's newscast has degenerated into a "broad-reaching video tabloid" seems particularly unfounded...